50 years after return to Japan, gap remains between Okinawa and rest of country

A shopping arcade in Naha. Among the country's 47 prefectures, Okinawa's average income per capita has stayed at the bottom since fiscal 1989 and the prefecture's child poverty rate stands at 29.9%, more than twice the national average. | REUTERS

It will mark the 50th anniversary of its return to Japan on May 15 this year.Since the unique law on advancement in Okinawa was enacted in 1972, the main government has actually taken numerous measures to fix variations between the prefecture and the rest of the country.On Thursday, parliament passed into law a bill to

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